Stefan wrote:It doesn't mean we have to read all of it. It just means we'll have access to any text we wanted.

Yes, of course. I was still having my morning coffee when I first read your post, I was under the impression you wanted to read it all! Which would be a tremendous feat. I don't even know if all the suttas are available online yet, so to have the whole tipitaka is probably a long way off. One thing that would be of great advantage to have the whole thing online would be if it was all on one site, and to have a search engine, so for instance if you typed "eight worldly winds", you'd have every instance of it in the pali canon. It's a pretty nice dream!
Metta,
Jackson

"The heart of the path is quite easy. There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice." - Ajahn Chah

Hi Stefan
If you learn pali, you can have access to the entire tipitaka now, for free.
It might be worth considering.
kind regards

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

Having it all as searchable online text would also help with the kind of online discussions we have here on Dhamma Wheel. Often there's a sutta I recall, but it doesn't seem to be online... not being online, I've often got no idea where it would be (having read the SN, MN & DN, I've read quite a few!) and it's difficult to make reference to.

But how can I learn Pali? I mean are there free resources on the web that can help me learn Pali well enough to be able to understand a sufficient amount of any sutta?

Not everythiong can be free, but they can be inexpensive. A.K. Warder's INTRODUCTION TO PALI can be gotten fairly cheaply, and it would be enough, if you worked through it all, to read sutta Pali. There are enough other resources on the web to assist your learning. If you are serious about it, your could manage this 2-3 years (or a bit longer, depending).

>> Do you see a man wise[enlightened/ariya]in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723

jcsuperstar wrote:what is actually left to translate into English? one abhidhamma book that i know of, but what else?

Most of the commentaries and virtually all the subcommentaries need to be translated. The Abhidhamma stuff needs to be redone. The Patisambhidamagga is in serious need of being redone as is much of the Khuddaka Nikaya.

>> Do you see a man wise[enlightened/ariya]in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723

jcsuperstar wrote:what is actually left to translate into English? one abhidhamma book that i know of, but what else?

English has changed considerably since the PTS was doing it's thing. Furthermore the older translations are liable to get the message wrong in places, one doesn't have to spend too much time digging through Maurice Walsh or Ven. Bodhi's notes sections to find good evidence of this.

metta
Jack

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

No problem Stefan but you better get cracking because the next time I see you on Skype you better be speaking pali!
I'm joking, of course!
metta

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725